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Poems on the Underground.

Poems on the Underground archive arrives at Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library

23 Feb 2024

Beloved poetry project archive contains letters from Nobel Prize winners and Poet Laureates

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World's oldest Korean Bibles at Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library

23 May 2019

̽»¨Ö±²¥library is home to one of the most significant collections of early Korean bibles anywhere in the world.

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Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Library stages first public play in its 600-year history

01 May 2019

Performance marked the launch of digital edition of Arthur Schnitzler's works and archive.

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State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin

25 Apr 2019

Towards the end of the 1960s, rumours began to spread that nonconformist citizens of the USSR were being diagnosed with mental illnesses and confined...

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Arthur Schnitzler Digital Edition

01 Apr 2019

Arthur Schnitzler digital: Digital Critical Edition (Works from 1905 to 1931

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̽»¨Ö±²¥Lost Words: inspiring children to love and protect nature

30 Nov 2018

̽»¨Ö±²¥Lost Words is a book by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris that summons the magic of nature to help children find, love and protect the natural...

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Cambridge ceremony reveals the winners of BBC Short Story and Young Writers’ Awards

02 Oct 2018

Trinidadian writer Ingrid Persaud, has won the thirteenth BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ for ‘ ̽»¨Ö±²¥Sweet Sop’, her first...

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Detail from William Harvey's De motu cordis (experiment confirming direction of blood flow)

Blood and bodies: the messy meanings of a life-giving substance

03 May 2018

A collection of essays explores understandings of a vital bodily fluid in the period 1400-1700. Its contributors offer insight into both theory and...

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Decorative detail on the Billingford Hutch

̽»¨Ö±²¥Billingford Hutch and the moonwort fern – a medieval mystery solved

10 Dec 2017

A heavy oak chest in the Parker Library (Corpus Christi College) was used to store objects left as collateral for loans of money. Its ironwork...

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Owl and the Pussy-Cat illustration by Edward Lear

‘They sailed away, for a year and a day’: why learning poetry by heart is good for you

28 Sep 2017

Most of us can quote snatches of poetry - but which poems can we recite in their entirety? In a survey of memorised poetry, Lear’s ̽»¨Ö±²¥Owl and the...

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'Swifts' lithograph from Carry Akroyd's 'Found in the Fields' series (detail)

Poet, activist, bird watcher: exploring John Clare as nature writer

29 Aug 2017

At a symposium next month (15 September 2017) academics, artists and ornithologists will share their responses to the work of 19th-century poet John...

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̽»¨Ö±²¥Royal Crescent in Bath

Jane Austen treasure is on display today to mark the bicentenary of the novelist’s death

17 Jul 2017

Jane Austen fans will have a rare chance today (18 July 2017) to see the manuscript of the novelist’s final (unfinished) novel at King’s College. The...

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